One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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